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douglas

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Hi, I m an American expat living and teaching ESL in Germany and having a lot of fun doing it! br br I would appreciate a PM message if you notice errors on any of my materials.

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General Vocab Fun Sheet #1
Here is my first general vocabulary funsheet. I have taken this vocabulary out of the list of the 500 most used words in English. Thanks to Gitte�s (Mulle�s)graciousness in letting me use her Funsheet format--Funsheets are a very effective, fun way to learn vocabulary. Cheers, Douglas
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 296


 
Visiting the Doctor-health vocabulary and dialogues
This is a two-page worksheet (doctor and patient)that deals with vocabulary one uses when visiting the doctor (illness, injury, check-up). It also includes a couple of doctor-patient dialogues and an exercise for students to create their own dialogues. The patient page covers symptoms and the doctor�s page covers treatment. Hope you find it usef...
Level: elementary
Age: 10-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 398


 
"Continuing" Questions: forming questions in the continuous tenses
This is my next worksheet on forming questions. This worksheet provides an explanation, exercises and a key for forming questions in the past and present continuous (progressive) tenses. Hope you can use it, Douglas
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 136


 
Mexican Food Vocaulary
I have a group of students that are planning a trip to Florida this summer. I made this WS to familiarize them with Mexican food. KEY: 1)taco 2)burrito 3)enchilada 4)guacamole 5)fajitas 6)nachoes/nacho grande 7)taco salad 8)taquitos Yes, I know there are a lot of excellent dishes missing, but this is just a primer.
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 85


 
Do, Make or Take
Here�s a seemly simple worksheet that helps students learn when to use make, take or do. I have partially used quotes from films and people so the exercises themselves are pretty easy for students, but translating and explaining some of the meanings may be a bit difficult for the teacher. I started the lesson with the question: "Do you make, take,...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 326


 
Fantasy Dinner Party
Here�s a worksheet that I threw together after getting the idea from another ESL site. The goal is to get students to discuss choices and make decisions together. It is important that the teacher enforces the "English Only" rule. Students use their imagination to decide who will come where in what attire, what they will have for dinner, and what...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 36


 
Crypto Quiz #10: The Ramones (difficult, with key)
Here is Crypto Quiz #10. It has a text about the Ramones (a punk band)and some fairly difficult vocabulary. WARNING: a couple of the graphics contain expletives (it�s Punk). The graphics are easy to delete or change though. Hope you can use it, Douglas
Level: advanced
Age: 13-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 55


 
plan and handout for teaching the alphabet to adults
This is a couple of sheets I put together to help me teach some true beginner adults the alphabet, numbers and some phonetics. One sheet is to hand out to the students as a study aid for them. The other is my strategy for teaching the individual letters, it is based on how frequently the letters are used in the English language. It�s really help...
Level: elementary
Age: 10-17
Type: lesson-plan
Downloads: 45


 
What�s in my toolbox 1
My adult male students especially enjoyed this and they found the vocabulary useful. This is vocabulary you don�t usually learn in class, but it definately kept my students attention. The blank worksheet is another file.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 19


 
Crypto Quiz #9 Rock Star Excess
Its been a while, but here is a new Crypto Quiz. This one involves Rock Star excess and the vocabulary is at an intermediate level. Hope you can use it, Douglas
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 50

 

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